• The Society of Cretan Historical Studies (Greek: Εταιρεία Κρητικών Ιστορικών Μελετών (ΕΚΙΜ)) is a research society based in Heraklion, Crete, with the...
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  • related to Zorba the Greek. The Nikos Kazantzakis Files Society of Cretan Historical Studies Life Force, book review on Time (magazine), April 20, 1953...
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    The Historical Museum of Crete is a museum in Heraklion, Crete. It was founded by the Society of Cretan Historical Studies in 1953 and was originally housed...
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    cretensis), and the Cretan shrew (Crocidura zimmermanni), as well as the large terrestrial Cretan owl (Athene cretensis) all of which but the shrew are...
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    The Cretan Muslims or Cretan Turks (Greek: Τουρκοκρητικοί or Τουρκοκρήτες, Tourkokritikí or Tourkokrítes; Turkish: Giritli, Girit Türkleri, or Giritli...
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  • Cretica Chronica (category Area studies journals)
    Κρητικά Χρονικά; Cretan annals) is a peer-reviewed academic journal published annually by the Society of Cretan Historical Studies (Greek: Εταιρία Κρητικών...
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  • Edward Venn-Thomas, who is transported forward in time by the New Cretans. Society is organised into five "estates" or social groups: captains, recorders...
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  • Stylianos Alexiou (category Corresponding Members of the Academy of Athens (modern))
    Society, the Society for Cretan Historical Studies, and finally, a Commendatore of the Italian Republic. In 1981, he was honoured with the title of Corresponding...
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  • developed an interest in contemporary history of Crete. He became a member of the Society of Cretan Historical Studies (Greek: Εταιρεία Κρητικών Ιστορικών Μελετών...
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    writing systems known as Cretan hieroglyphs and Linear A. Because neither script has been fully deciphered, the identity of the Minoan language is unknown...
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  • The Cretan Gendarmerie (Greek: Κρητική Χωροφυλακή) was a gendarmerie force created under the Cretan State, after the island of Crete gained autonomy from...
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    Euboea and the Cyclades: the islands of Patmos, Karpathos and nearby Sokastro came under Cretan control, and Cretan rule extended as far north as Aegina...
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    of the modern journal format, the Society of Antiquaries of London published Vetusta Monumenta, a series of illustrated folios on antiquarian studies...
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    Labyrinth (redirect from Cretan Labyrinth)
    Labyrinth that he could barely escape it after he built it. Although early Cretan coins occasionally exhibit branching (multicursal) patterns, the single-path...
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  • Thomas Dunbabin (category Cretan Resistance)
    transcription of Dunbabin’s own account of his time on Crete was prepared by his nephew and published (in Greek and English) in 2015 by the Society of Cretan Historical...
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    Ἰδομενεύς) was a Cretan king and commander who led the Cretan armies to the Trojan War, in eighty black ships. He was also one of the suitors of Helen, as well...
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    Crete (redirect from Cretan)
    the southern border of the Aegean Sea, with the Sea of Crete (or North Cretan Sea) to the north and the Libyan Sea (or South Cretan Sea) to the south....
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    Arthur Evans (category Fellows of the Society of Antiquaries of London)
    Greek island of Crete began in 1877. They were led by Cretan Greek Minos Kalokairinos, a native of Heraklion. Three weeks later Turkish authorities forced...
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    was a Cretan Greek statesman and prominent leader of the Greek national liberation movement. He is noted for his contribution to the expansion of Greece...
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    Greek art (redirect from Art of Greece)
    still is, the Cretan school as the leading school of Greek post-Byzantine painting after Crete fell to the Ottomans in 1669. Like the Cretan school, it combined...
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  • The King Must Die (category British historical novels)
    Aigeus proclaims Theseus his son and heir. When a Cretan ship comes to collect a yearly tribute of seven boys and seven girls from Athens, Theseus, feeling...
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  • of Southampton 2016, Session 20. E.g. 12th International Congress of Cretological Studies 21–25 September 2016, Program/Abstracts, Society of Cretan Historical...
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    Greek Muslims (category People from the Ottoman Empire of Greek descent)
    They consist primarily of descendants of Ottoman-era converts to Islam from Greek Macedonia (e.g., Vallahades), Crete (Cretan Muslims), and northeastern...
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    Venetian conquest in 1205–1212 to its fall to the Ottoman Empire during the Cretan War (1645–1669). The island was at the time and up to the early modern era...
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  • families of Crete or Twelve Archontopoula (Greek: Δώδεκα Αρχοντόπουλα) is a legend ascribing the origin of the most prominent families of the Cretan nobility...
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    its characters consisted simply of lines inscribed in clay, in contrast to the more pictographic characters in Cretan hieroglyphs that were used during...
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    Demetrios Vikelas (category Knights of the Legion of Honour)
    contacted authors and academics to gain their support for the Cretan cause during the Cretan Revolt of 1866-1867, for which he raised more fundraising. Also in...
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    which means "Cretan" in Ancient Greek. El Greco was born in the Kingdom of Candia (modern Crete), which was at that time part of the Republic of Venice, Italy...
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  • honorary member of the Turkish Historical Society (Türk Tarih Kurumu). She was a graduate of Ca’ Foscari University of Venice and the University of Trieste....
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    Euphrosynos (category Cretan Renaissance painters)
    Chatzidakis M. (September 5, 2021). "The Painter Euphrosynos". Society of Cretan Historical Studies & Kalokerinos' family. Retrieved September 5, 2021. Sethre...
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